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On November 27, the Simferopol court arrested, until January 25, 2019, for two months, 12 of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained after the incident in the Kerch Strait, reported TASS. They are accused of crossing the border illegally.
"Today, the decisions of the investigators of the FSB on the election of a preventive measure … suspected of committing a crime, provided for in the third part of the article 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation [“Незаконное пересечении границы, совершенное группой лиц по предварительному сговору или организованной группой, либо с применением насилия или с угрозой его применения”]", – told reporters the representative of Kyiv Simferopol District Court.Under this article, naval sailors can face up to six years in prison.
Andrey Oprysko, Sergey Tsybizov, Yuri Budzylo, Vladimir Tereshchenko, Victor Bespalchenko, Vladimir Varymez, Mikhail Vlasyuk, Bogdan Golovash, Sergey Chuliba, Vladislav Kostyshin, Sergey Popov were under arrest
The EU has called on Russia to release the arrested sailors and ships, as well as to restore the freedom of navigation in the Kerch Strait, reports RBC according to the press service of the European Union.
Conflict in the Kerch Strait
On November 25, the Russian FSB reported that border guards had used weapons against Ukrainian warships Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yana Kapu, allegedly violating the state border. The Ukrainian side announced an act of aggression on the part of Russia.
According to Ukraine, six sailors were injured, the Russian side talks about three Ukrainian soldiers injured during the conflict, they are in the hospital.
The President of Ukraine called on the leaders of the Russian Federation to demand the release of Ukrainian seamen and ships. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the incident in the sea of Azov was a provocation on the side of Ukraine. A spokesman for Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the incident "invasion of the territorial waters of the Russian Federation", and said that the Russian side had acted in strict accordance with international law and the law. internal.
On November 26, the Verkhovna Rada supported the introduction of martial law in Ukraine. The President of the country, Petro Poroshenko, was at the origin of these measures.
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